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...where breakfast is Froot Loops and beer, where people "crash" when their "action" cycle runs out, where an aging hooker named Barbara gropes around looking for "The Guide." They're all too exhilirated by the California high to be sordid, and Gould's love of gambling for its own sake undercuts Segal's tortured loser. With these two side by side the film can't have any point of view about gambling--it just shows how it works...
Bowie Kuhn, Commissioner of Baseball, must dream about Septembers like this. All too often the coming of crisp evenings means limp competition -pennant races already decided, games being played for the sake of the schedule. Last week, for a change, there were tight races in three of the four major league divisions, providing more drama than any September has seen since baseball expanded...
...merger merger was financially, attractive to Radcliffe largely because Harvard absorbed all of the school's debts. But for Harvard's sake, the compromise neatly side-stepped the key issue--the total absorption of Radcliffe women into the Harvard mainstream, a situation many observes felt could only be brought about by the admission of equal numbers of both sexes...
...radio commentator, who won the G.O.P. nomination for Lieutenant Governor. At a time when Alaska is in the throes of pipeline fever, their winning platform surprisingly calls for "careful scrutiny" of the state's rapid growth and "no development for development's sake." In November, Hammond will face Governor William A. Egan, who was easily renominated in last week's Democratic primary...
...distinguish the Provisionals from the Officials chiefly by their attitudes: CHUL members are more likely to be interested in Harvard politics for its own sake; the Extracurriculars more often because they think that it reflects national trends that they're interested in. In the more politicized time of the ROTC controversy, when people had to make their arguments explicit and defend their premises, the differences came out quite strongly. Most of the Provisionals, then centered around Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), wanted ROTC kicked off campus because they thought an organization like the United States Army didn't have...